Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
"One flew east, one flew west"
"And one flew over the cuckoo's nest"
I don't think the book should be banned from public libraries, high school libraries or middle school libraries. Some people might think this book should be banned because of its racial slurs, language, and sense of rebellion against authority. I don't think that the language is severe enough to ban it from schools. High school students would be hearing that stuff anyways.
"The words and scenes don't bother me," said Jennifer, 17, of Anaheim. "It's like TV today. It's not anything different. There are other, worse books, and curse words you hear daily." She said the book gave her insight into mental institutions and that she liked the characters' carefree quality, even though they were ill.
"I don't want to put these kinds of images in children's minds. They're going to think that when they get mad at their parents, they can just ax them out."
http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics/reasonsbanned
Mr. Kesey gives us many amusing scenes which are “black“—Big Nurse for example, informs Billy, the whore's betrothed, that she is going to tell his mother!—but he knows that if we can laugh at the unreality around us, we retain our humanity. Gothic and comedy are Janus-faced. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is an honest, claustrophobic, stylistically brilliant first novel which makes us shiver as we laugh—paradoxically, it keeps us “in balance” by revealing our madness. Malin, Irving. "Ken Kesey: 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'." Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction 5.2 (Fall 1962): 81-84. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz and Cathy Falk. Vol. 64. Detroit: Gale Research,
Mr. Kesey writes with both anger and compassion, with severe irony and broad, congenial humor. Following him with the involvement his style demands, one cannot but experience a vision that is truly authoritative and original. Sassoon, R. L. "Review of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Northwest Review 6.2 (Spring 1963): 116-120. Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Roger Matuz and Cathy Falk. Vol. 64. Detroit: Gale Research,
_
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kensey
was banned for serveral reasons. It was labeled "pornographic,"
and the novel "glorifies criminal activity, has a tendency to
corrupt juveniles and contains descriptions of bestiality,
bizarre violence, and torture, dismemberment, death, and
human elimination."
It follows the experiences of Randle Patrick McMurphy, who faked insanity in order to serve out his prison sentence in the easy, comforts of a mental hospital- or so he thought. The novel constantly refers to authorities that control individuals through subtle methods. The authority of The Combine is most often personified in the character of “Nurse Ratched” as she controls the inhabitants of the mental ward through a method of rewards and shame. Her actions are more sinister than those of a conventional prison administrator, as this subtlety in her actions prevents her prisoners from seeing that they are being controlled at all.